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More Competition
Forces Efficient
Service: Damon
New York—President Ralph S.
Damon forcefully pointed out the
challenge facing all of TWA to
"go out and sell TWA and do it at
the least cost" in his address to the
Management club last week.
Damon spoke before the largest
group ever to attend a local Management club meeting, including 30
guests from as far west as Los Angeles and as far east as Cairo. Election of officers took place at the
meeting also, with Tom Poole, superintendent of Atlantic region
flight dispatch, being named presi-
ent.
t Explaining that a time of heated
competition is upon us and that
e company which does the most
d the best for the least cost is
ie one which will be able to show
a profit, Damon addressed some of
his remarks to "department heads,
who have budgets to prepare . . .
Just because an item is approved
in the budget," he said, "is no license to go out and spend the
money."*
A reduction of indebtedness and
a better future can only be obtained by profits, Damon explained. In
the very competitive period facing
the industry, a satisfactory profit
will only be obtained by aggressive
selling and a continued reduction in
expenses. Damon stated that TWA
will be in a better competitive po-
( Continued on Page 6)
Retirement Pian
Statements Co in
Mail This Week
Kansas City—TWA's employee
retirement plan, now entering its
fifth year, will present a completely new look in its annual
statements to individual members
this year.
Instead of the condensed statement of past years, the retirement
plan statement being distributed
this week to all members gives a
complete breakdown of each employee's account in the program,
including:
1. The amount of deductions made
from the employee's paycheck between
June 1, 1953. and May 31. 1954.
2. The total amount the employee has
contributed to the plan since its beginning on June 1, 1950, up to May
31, 1954.
3. The total amount of interest earned
by the employee's contributions from
beginning of the plan to date, which
includes the interest that had been
indicated on the previous years' statements.
4. The employee's monthly annuity
credit based on his past service, that
is, credit for his service with TWA
prior to June 1, 1950.
5. The employee's monthly annuity
credit based on his own and the company's contributions since June 1, 1950.
6. The combined total of past and
current annuity credits'.
7. The estimated amount of money
that will be needed to purchase the
^loyee's present monthly annuity at
\ormal retirement date. This gives
. >lan member a good idea of his
the company's shares in buying
| monthly retirement income.
Jim Kessler, retirement plan
supervisor, said there was now $16,-
587,918 in the retirement plan
fund, with contributions by employee members totaling $6,794,-
962. As of June 1 there were 6,435
TWAers enrolled in the plan.
Kessler said that, as in the past,
only if an employee is in disagreement with the statement of his
account should he return it to the
retirement plan section. If this is
the case, he should return the statement within 10 days after receipt.
A FIRST ISSUE stamp of the Vatican
Marian year series is consigned to a
Swiss guard by Aldo Riggio, cargo
sales supervisor, Rome. This is one of
1,290 air mail envelopes addressed to
top American industrialists and collectors sent from America to the TWA
office in Rcme for remailing to the U.S.
Pan Banging Startles
Bees Swarming on Ramp
Albany—Swarming bees buzzed Albany airport this week, disrupting operations in all directions.
An American Airlines flight was
delayed while AAL station manager Lowell Bryant checked the ope.-
ations manual for proper procedure.
Beating on a pan caused the bees
to lump up on a branch, which was
clipped off.
TWA Transportation Agent
Paul Tredo and Porter Ernest Williams found another swarm still
on the branch. The pair made a
frontal attack, s'ipping a paper
sack over the bees, but not before
Tredo got himself thoroughly
stung.
BOUGHTON TO ATA PBR POST
Miami—Ed Boughton, TWA's
director of press relations, has been
elected a vice-chairman of the public relations advisory committee of
the Air Transport association.
VOL. 17, NO. 24
trans world airlines employee publication
JUNE 17, 1954
Tomb oi Ancient King
Spurs Tourist Traffic
By Emmet Riordan
Cairo—No Egyptians are more excited about the newly revealed
archeological discoveries than the handful of men charged with bringing
Egypt back into the limelight as a world tourist center.
Already the first tourists have seen the new pyramid at nearby Sak-
kara. Thirty passengers aboard TWA's New York-bound sleeper plane
saw the site from the air last week as Captain Eugene Gerow circled
above it. —
In a week's time tourism officials will open a gallery for tourists
at the site of the solar boat discovery near the Great Pyramid of
Cheops.
Not since the famous Tutankhamen discovery of 1922 has
Egypt's tourism industry had such
a good break. Just as this country's
tourism campaign reached full
pitch, and as workmen readied
foundations of two new tourist hotels, two historic discoveries were
made, both located within a 30 minutes' drive of Cairo's new hotel
center.
While Tutankhamen's tomb was
discovered hundreds of miles up
the Nile from Cairo, Sakkara, location of the new pyramid, is visible
from hotel rooftops. Apparently
unmolested, the Third Dynasty
pyramid has lain deep under desert
sand for nearly 5000 years while
grave robbers have pillaged all
other known monuments of the
"Old Kingdom."
Both of the discoveries and
others hinted at by officials will be
opened for tourists as quickly as
the demands of science and safety
can be met, according to Mohied-
dine El Shazley, Egypt's hard-driving young director of tourism.
Already credited with bringing
Egypt her best tourism year to date,
Shazley plans to take full advantage
of the new discoveries. His staff is
cooperating with antiquities department officials to plan an observation gallery, perhaps with a glassed-
in viewing platform, at the solar
boat site beside the Great Pyramid.
American Ambassador Jefferson
Caffery, an amateur archeologist,
hailed the tourism potential of the
discoveries after he had inspected
them.
"American tourists are more likely to be attracted to Egypt by these
discoveries than by any amount of
touristic propaganda," the diplomat said.
Exasperated Operator
Finds Her Number Is Up
Washington—In addition to
her regular duties, public relations,
secretary Virginia Mulinari also relieves the operator at the switchboard.
The other day she plugged in a
call to the public relations office
and kept ringing away, finally telling the caller that she "just knew
someone was there."
Suddenly to her horror she realized that she was ringing herself!
THREE-DAY HOLIDAY ON TAP
Because July 4 falls on a Sunday this
year, the following day, Monday, July
5, will be a company recognized holiday for TWA ground employees based
within the continental limits of the
United States; except for communications employees and dispatchers, who
will recognize Sunday. July 4, as their
holiday as provided in their working
agreement.
Air Travel Plan Will Extend
Credit Around the World
By Walter Brown
New York—The Air Travel Plan! Do you know what it is and how
it benefits the air traveler and TWA?
Its proper name is the Universal Air Travel Plan and is jointly sponsored by the Air Traffic Conference of America and the International
Air Transportation association. Seventy-seven of the world's airlines participate in the ATP. The plan has been in operation now for 18 years.
It is a plan whereby individuals,
companies and organizations upon
meeting certain qualifications may
charge air transportation and be
billed monthly, just like a simple
charge account with your local department store.
TWA will open an air travel
charge account for any applicant
HOSTESS CLASS IN PARIS gets checked out on the proper
way to wear a TWA uniform. In the picture are Anne Marie
Fah, Claude Bib/on, Jeannie Arnault, Christiane Peironet,
Michele Larovel, Helga Magnusdottir, Francoise Guillemain,
Michele Tesan, Nicole Kiesser, and Marguerite Fay. These
girls will soon be flying international routes for TWA.
who fills out and signs a subscriber's contract, has met certain credit
responsibilities and paid a deposit
of $425 in U. S. currency or the
equivalent. When an applicant has
met the necessary qualifications
TWA will then issue the air travel
card and/or "one trip travel orders"
ffor non-cardholders designated by
the subscriber); these are honored
by any airline participating in the
ATP. There are three types of air
travel cards:
International cards (green), honored for world-wide transportation.
Territorial cards (red and
brown), red cards honored for
transportation within the continent
of North America, the Bahamas,
West Indies, Bermuda, Newfoundland and the Hawaiian islands;
brown cards honored for transportation in specific territories other
than red cards.
Controlled cards (blue), honored for world-wide transportation
but issued in countries where there
are governmental currency controls.
How does the air travel plan
benefit the subscriber? A business
firm with an air travel plan account
will save time at ticket counters
when purchasing transportation.
They are billed once a month for
all air transportation on all airlines,
giving them a complete and permanent record of air travel costs
and an excellent record of sales-
mens' activities and for tax purposes. A firm's accounting is simplified. It saves the necessity of carrying large sums of cash for transportation and there is no need to
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t£5>
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More Competition
Forces Efficient
Service: Damon
New York—President Ralph S.
Damon forcefully pointed out the
challenge facing all of TWA to
"go out and sell TWA and do it at
the least cost" in his address to the
Management club last week.
Damon spoke before the largest
group ever to attend a local Management club meeting, including 30
guests from as far west as Los Angeles and as far east as Cairo. Election of officers took place at the
meeting also, with Tom Poole, superintendent of Atlantic region
flight dispatch, being named presi-
ent.
t Explaining that a time of heated
competition is upon us and that
e company which does the most
d the best for the least cost is
ie one which will be able to show
a profit, Damon addressed some of
his remarks to "department heads,
who have budgets to prepare . . .
Just because an item is approved
in the budget," he said, "is no license to go out and spend the
money."*
A reduction of indebtedness and
a better future can only be obtained by profits, Damon explained. In
the very competitive period facing
the industry, a satisfactory profit
will only be obtained by aggressive
selling and a continued reduction in
expenses. Damon stated that TWA
will be in a better competitive po-
( Continued on Page 6)
Retirement Pian
Statements Co in
Mail This Week
Kansas City—TWA's employee
retirement plan, now entering its
fifth year, will present a completely new look in its annual
statements to individual members
this year.
Instead of the condensed statement of past years, the retirement
plan statement being distributed
this week to all members gives a
complete breakdown of each employee's account in the program,
including:
1. The amount of deductions made
from the employee's paycheck between
June 1, 1953. and May 31. 1954.
2. The total amount the employee has
contributed to the plan since its beginning on June 1, 1950, up to May
31, 1954.
3. The total amount of interest earned
by the employee's contributions from
beginning of the plan to date, which
includes the interest that had been
indicated on the previous years' statements.
4. The employee's monthly annuity
credit based on his past service, that
is, credit for his service with TWA
prior to June 1, 1950.
5. The employee's monthly annuity
credit based on his own and the company's contributions since June 1, 1950.
6. The combined total of past and
current annuity credits'.
7. The estimated amount of money
that will be needed to purchase the
^loyee's present monthly annuity at
\ormal retirement date. This gives
. >lan member a good idea of his
the company's shares in buying
| monthly retirement income.
Jim Kessler, retirement plan
supervisor, said there was now $16,-
587,918 in the retirement plan
fund, with contributions by employee members totaling $6,794,-
962. As of June 1 there were 6,435
TWAers enrolled in the plan.
Kessler said that, as in the past,
only if an employee is in disagreement with the statement of his
account should he return it to the
retirement plan section. If this is
the case, he should return the statement within 10 days after receipt.
A FIRST ISSUE stamp of the Vatican
Marian year series is consigned to a
Swiss guard by Aldo Riggio, cargo
sales supervisor, Rome. This is one of
1,290 air mail envelopes addressed to
top American industrialists and collectors sent from America to the TWA
office in Rcme for remailing to the U.S.
Pan Banging Startles
Bees Swarming on Ramp
Albany—Swarming bees buzzed Albany airport this week, disrupting operations in all directions.
An American Airlines flight was
delayed while AAL station manager Lowell Bryant checked the ope.-
ations manual for proper procedure.
Beating on a pan caused the bees
to lump up on a branch, which was
clipped off.
TWA Transportation Agent
Paul Tredo and Porter Ernest Williams found another swarm still
on the branch. The pair made a
frontal attack, s'ipping a paper
sack over the bees, but not before
Tredo got himself thoroughly
stung.
BOUGHTON TO ATA PBR POST
Miami—Ed Boughton, TWA's
director of press relations, has been
elected a vice-chairman of the public relations advisory committee of
the Air Transport association.
VOL. 17, NO. 24
trans world airlines employee publication
JUNE 17, 1954
Tomb oi Ancient King
Spurs Tourist Traffic
By Emmet Riordan
Cairo—No Egyptians are more excited about the newly revealed
archeological discoveries than the handful of men charged with bringing
Egypt back into the limelight as a world tourist center.
Already the first tourists have seen the new pyramid at nearby Sak-
kara. Thirty passengers aboard TWA's New York-bound sleeper plane
saw the site from the air last week as Captain Eugene Gerow circled
above it. —
In a week's time tourism officials will open a gallery for tourists
at the site of the solar boat discovery near the Great Pyramid of
Cheops.
Not since the famous Tutankhamen discovery of 1922 has
Egypt's tourism industry had such
a good break. Just as this country's
tourism campaign reached full
pitch, and as workmen readied
foundations of two new tourist hotels, two historic discoveries were
made, both located within a 30 minutes' drive of Cairo's new hotel
center.
While Tutankhamen's tomb was
discovered hundreds of miles up
the Nile from Cairo, Sakkara, location of the new pyramid, is visible
from hotel rooftops. Apparently
unmolested, the Third Dynasty
pyramid has lain deep under desert
sand for nearly 5000 years while
grave robbers have pillaged all
other known monuments of the
"Old Kingdom."
Both of the discoveries and
others hinted at by officials will be
opened for tourists as quickly as
the demands of science and safety
can be met, according to Mohied-
dine El Shazley, Egypt's hard-driving young director of tourism.
Already credited with bringing
Egypt her best tourism year to date,
Shazley plans to take full advantage
of the new discoveries. His staff is
cooperating with antiquities department officials to plan an observation gallery, perhaps with a glassed-
in viewing platform, at the solar
boat site beside the Great Pyramid.
American Ambassador Jefferson
Caffery, an amateur archeologist,
hailed the tourism potential of the
discoveries after he had inspected
them.
"American tourists are more likely to be attracted to Egypt by these
discoveries than by any amount of
touristic propaganda," the diplomat said.
Exasperated Operator
Finds Her Number Is Up
Washington—In addition to
her regular duties, public relations,
secretary Virginia Mulinari also relieves the operator at the switchboard.
The other day she plugged in a
call to the public relations office
and kept ringing away, finally telling the caller that she "just knew
someone was there."
Suddenly to her horror she realized that she was ringing herself!
THREE-DAY HOLIDAY ON TAP
Because July 4 falls on a Sunday this
year, the following day, Monday, July
5, will be a company recognized holiday for TWA ground employees based
within the continental limits of the
United States; except for communications employees and dispatchers, who
will recognize Sunday. July 4, as their
holiday as provided in their working
agreement.
Air Travel Plan Will Extend
Credit Around the World
By Walter Brown
New York—The Air Travel Plan! Do you know what it is and how
it benefits the air traveler and TWA?
Its proper name is the Universal Air Travel Plan and is jointly sponsored by the Air Traffic Conference of America and the International
Air Transportation association. Seventy-seven of the world's airlines participate in the ATP. The plan has been in operation now for 18 years.
It is a plan whereby individuals,
companies and organizations upon
meeting certain qualifications may
charge air transportation and be
billed monthly, just like a simple
charge account with your local department store.
TWA will open an air travel
charge account for any applicant
HOSTESS CLASS IN PARIS gets checked out on the proper
way to wear a TWA uniform. In the picture are Anne Marie
Fah, Claude Bib/on, Jeannie Arnault, Christiane Peironet,
Michele Larovel, Helga Magnusdottir, Francoise Guillemain,
Michele Tesan, Nicole Kiesser, and Marguerite Fay. These
girls will soon be flying international routes for TWA.
who fills out and signs a subscriber's contract, has met certain credit
responsibilities and paid a deposit
of $425 in U. S. currency or the
equivalent. When an applicant has
met the necessary qualifications
TWA will then issue the air travel
card and/or "one trip travel orders"
ffor non-cardholders designated by
the subscriber); these are honored
by any airline participating in the
ATP. There are three types of air
travel cards:
International cards (green), honored for world-wide transportation.
Territorial cards (red and
brown), red cards honored for
transportation within the continent
of North America, the Bahamas,
West Indies, Bermuda, Newfoundland and the Hawaiian islands;
brown cards honored for transportation in specific territories other
than red cards.
Controlled cards (blue), honored for world-wide transportation
but issued in countries where there
are governmental currency controls.
How does the air travel plan
benefit the subscriber? A business
firm with an air travel plan account
will save time at ticket counters
when purchasing transportation.
They are billed once a month for
all air transportation on all airlines,
giving them a complete and permanent record of air travel costs
and an excellent record of sales-
mens' activities and for tax purposes. A firm's accounting is simplified. It saves the necessity of carrying large sums of cash for transportation and there is no need to
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